http://blog.billbrantley.com Random notes on politics, government, science, and technology. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:38:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/27/focusing-on-the-learning-not-the-technology/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/01/27/focusing-on-the-learning-not-the-technology/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:12:54 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=120 I’ve always liked Roger Schank since I read his Tell Me a Story back in 1991.  In fact, he’s the impetus for my interest in mental models.  His insights in teaching and learning are well-grounded in his experiences in teaching college classes and his consulting work to many large companies.  That’s why his latest opinion on being realistic about the effects of technology on learning.  “Learning is learning and technology is technology. The two are related if and only if the technology makes it possible to learn something that can be learned in no other way.”

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